Daniel Temkin

Me with hexagonal dither projection

Me with triangular dither pixel projection

Popped in for the last day of my Dither Studies up at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social

I want hexagonal UIs: hexagonal screens with hexagon pixels and hexagonally-angled block drawing characters. Pop-up windows as trapezoids or parallelograms on hexagonal grids… I’ve done hexagonal dithering, which looks amazing, but having our screens show them natively would be something else

Amazing line-up!

a career digression from a meander from a path

Four test prints with slightly different palettes, of line-based code

Finding the right palette for my Rivulet program

Trying something new with this: an installation of works from the book. It meant coming back from book travel, straight into fifteen-hour days of printing.

Spent four hours debugging an Epson printer driver issue but my deadline and lack of alternatives got me through

My site is down and not even mad 🤷

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A Cree Syllabics keyboard, circular with related songs grouped

As a bonus, here’s the Cree keyboard Jon designed

My laptop with some signs of our language, Jon in a VIC 20 t-shirt

More symbols from our esoconlang

Spent three days intensely working on an esoconlang (programming language with its own script and pronunciation) with Jon Corbett (of Cree# fame)

Conversation with Claude about tracery parsers, and it advises me to look at kate comptons parser, to which i reply “but Doctor i am kate compton”

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

Forty-Four Esolangs by Daniel Temkin | P&T Knitwear A riveting collection of one artist’s many approaches to esolangs—esoteric programming languages—showcasing the form’s limitless artistic potential.

New Yorkers: I'm back soon to talk Forty-Four Esolangs at LES indie bookstore P&T Knitwear.

It will include installations for two of the languages!

Tue, Dec 2nd, doors 6pm: ptknitwear.com/item/Jt0yuxc...

The Orientation Game Joel Gustafson

for spooky season this year I wrote about Italo Calvino's remarkable 1967 lecture "Cybernetics and Ghosts", wherein he speculates about whether a machine could ever write great literature. joelgustafson.com/posts/2025-1...

Hey Seattle! Tuesday night I’ll be talking esolangs, code aesthetics, and expressiveness in the text of code

Hey Chicago people, this is tomorrow!

There should be a recording online soon of another iteration of this talk

Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Codes Nov. 4th, 4:00-5:30, Cobb 311 (5811 S Ellis Ave) Presenter: Daniel Temkin (Independent researcher and writer of the esoteric codes blog) Discussant: Marc Downie (Associate Professor of Practice, CMS, University of Chicago)

not sure yet if I'm going to be able to attend this myself, but tomorrow afternoon The Digital Media Workshop is presenting a discussion with @dtemkin.bsky.social about his book Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Codes. Definitely worth checking out if you can make it...

100 Assignments From Nayland Blake While ­these assignments ­will not turn someone ­else into me, they ­will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.

I did assignment #4 when I was in @naylandblake.bsky.social’s class. I picked Cat Fancy, and its pieces on cat care and ancient cat worship — however ahistorical — make for a more utopian vision of society hyperallergic.com/1040396/100-...

As the Ox Plows

I made a tool for those who prefer Boustrophedon oxplows.com

Plus people who understand encodings are not sending me Excel files, so every one is likely mojibaked

Hypnotic. Feels like having a stroke in front of a lenticular

Claude's first move is always a React app, but it sucks at React

if y'all haven't read something about art worth pausing and making a quick voicemail to record and share it, that's sad but [gestures around at all this] understandable. if y'all are just too lazy to click thru for the number, fine. it's 34-SOUVENIR.

I use this term a lot, mostly borrowing from Wendy Chun, about the move to more English-like code (democratizing and de-skilling). I don’t know the history of the term, but am curious

#fontober day 28: the font in the first image is plain old Times, just upside down, right? now look at the second image where i turn it right side up. wtf!! (1/5)

Windows-1252 is so embarrassing. What is wrong with you, Excel?

Hey Seattle folks! I'll be talking esolangs at Ada's Technical Books on 11/11. Would love to see you there. RSVPs are now open: luma.com/n30butuj

Gray Area awning with my name on the marquee!

This was fun to see; also, the Bay Area folks brought great energy. Ended the first leg of my book tour on a high note!

Definitely spent more time talking about trek with glitch artists than about glitch